Drawing from every stage of his career, Derek Walcott's Selected Poems brings together famous pieces from his early volumes, including "A Far Cry from Africa" and "A City's Death by Fire," with passages from the celebrated Omeros and selections from his latest major works, which extend his contributions to reenergizing the contemporary long poem. Here we find all of Walcott's essential themes, from grappling with the Caribbean's colonial legacy to his conflicted love of home and of Western literary tradition; from the wisdom-making pain of time and mortality to the strange wonder of love, the natural world, and what it means to be human. We see his lifelong labor at poetic crafts, his broadening of the possibilities of rhyme and meter, stanza forms, language, and metaphor. Edited and with an introduction by the Jamaican poet and critic Edward Baugh, this volume is a perfect representation of Walcott's breadth of work, spanning almost half a century.
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Hardback Editions
January 2007 : Hardback
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January 2007 : Hardback
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1963 : Hardback
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Paperback Editions
January 2008 : Paperback
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December 2007 : Paperback
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November 1993 : Paperback
| Title: Derek Walcott (York Notes) Author(s): Derek Walcott ISBN: 0-582-21536-6 / 978-0-582-21536-8 Publisher: Longman Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Audio Editions
October 1994 : Audio Cassette
| Title: Derek Walcott: Selection of Poems Author(s): Derek Walcott ISBN: 1-85849-882-1 / 9781858498829 (UK edition) Publisher: Argo Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
1964 : Unknown
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